Thousands of Bnei Brak residents turned out Tuesday night for a hachnasas sefer Torah at the Ziv Yehuda beis medrash in the Kiryat Herzog neighborhood, in a celebration that brought admorim, rabbanim and families into the streets.
The sefer Torah was donated by R' Shimon Bril in memory of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. The procession was led by Rav Aharon Yitzchak Stern, rosh yeshiva of the Ziv Yehuda beis medrash.
Rav Yehoshua Fink, rav of the Belzer kehilla on Ben Yaakov Street in Bnei Brak, came dressed in Shabbos clothing and danced with the sefer Torah throughout the procession and into the seudas mitzvah that followed.
Children from the neighborhood accompanied the sefer Torah through the streets holding lit torches, singing and dancing as the procession made its way to the shul. After mizmorim and dancing, the sefer Torah was placed in the aron kodesh, and the crowd moved to a seudas mitzvah.
